Bart Stevens, ChLAP, AZCLDP, founder and executive director of Bart Stevens Special Needs Planning LLC, has been working exclusively with families and professionals in the Special Needs Field since 1993. He has been providing Estate Planning services since 1972. He is one of the first Special Needs Planners to earn the designation of Chartered Lifetime Assistance Planner (ChLAP) from the National Institute on Life Planning for Persons with Disabilities.

He is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, N.J. and is a U.S. Army veteran. In addition to being a nationally recognized speaker at conferences that include the National Autism Society of America, National Down Syndrome Society, National Down Syndrome Congress, National Spina

Bifida Association, and TASH, he also conducts educational seminars, provides individual planning assistance, and group planning workshops throughout the United States.

Bart has written numerous articles for publications including The Advocate (The Autism Society of America’s newsletter) and Paraplegia News. He has been a guest on radio and television shows and has also been interviewed by The New York Sunday Times (1/9/00); Mature Outlook Magazine (12/00); Kiplinger Reports (Fall 00); The Washington Times (3/27/01); The Chicago Tribune (10/01); and The Arizona Republic (2/17/03). Bart is the author of The ABC’s of Special Needs Planning Made Easy©.